For many people, the Nokia Lumia 920 and HTC 8X will be their first experience with Windows Phone. Upon starting a Windows Phone device for the first time, you are presented with log in options for a Microsoft account. If you already have a Hotmail, Live, or Outlook.com account you can log in with those credentials. If you’ve never owned a Microsoft email address or account then now would be the time you need to create one. This account is used for gaming via Xbox Live, Zune Music Pass, Windows Phone Store (apps), SkyDrive, and of course a new email account. This step needs to be done to take full advantage of your Windows Phone experience that will also tie-in with your Windows 8 PC.

Wireless biosensors and big data analytics can help hospitals identify patients showing signs of sepsis, the leading cause of death in noncoronary intensive care units in the U.S. They can even keep monitoring patients who have been discharged.

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

Sepsis is a serious medical condition that occurs when the body unleashes the full force of the immune system in response to an infection.........

An updated version of Microsoft’s Power BI service will be released July 24, the company announced Friday. The goal of the updated service is to enable business users to benefit from business intelligence and analytics without requiring sophisticated help from analysts, data scientists, or other tech staff.

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

The new set of business-intelligence tools will replace Microsoft's current Power BI for Office 365 service.

U.S. tech companies should retain access to the encrypted information of their customers, instead of providing end-to-end encryption, in order to give police the tools they need to investigate crimes and terrorist activity, two senior law enforcement officials said.

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI aren't seeking new legislation to require tech companies to comply with warrant requests, at least for now, ....

Managers embrace private cloud solutions such as OpenStack because they keep IT in control, but are they simply old men shaking their fists at the public cloud?

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

After all, the public-vs.-private-cloud debate is less a matter of functional hardware parity and more a matter of abstracting away the very idea of hardware (and software) ownership, yielding an elasticity and flexibility of development that is simply impossible with OpenStack or any private cloud.

First, OpenStack is NOT just private cloud. Sounds like some do not get that. Second, if private cloud is for suckers, there are a lot of suckers in the world. Might be good to see why people are going for private cloud.

What is the difference between cloud orchestration and cloud automation? An exploration of these two terms is more than a vocabulary exercise; it highlights a key challenge for teams looking to improve IT processes.

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

Cloud automation describes a task or function accomplished without human intervention. Cloud orchestration describes the arranging and coordination of automated tasks, ultimately resulting in a consolidated process or workflow.

Apple's plans are promising, but they're mainly about getting Swift into the hands of more developers

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

The announcement went hand-in-hand with word of Swift 2, which is bristling with new features to make development faster and easier, and is available with the iOS 9 beta (to be released to registered developers today).

The announcement went hand-in-hand with word of Swift 2, which is bristling with new features to make development faster and easier, and is available with the iOS 9 beta (to be released to registered developers today).

A private cloud is one of the two types of cloud computing (the other is public cloud) with a separate and secure cloud-based environment where only one specific user/client can operate. Just like with other cloud models, the ‘private cloud’ models also offer computing power as a service within a

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

This article compares the Private Cloud to the normal off the mill Local Area Network and does not deal in comparing it to the Public Cloud. Of course Private Cloud comes up trumps in this scenario.

The company reported its first overall sales decline in more than two years

Peter Azzopardi's insight:

Oracle's cloud business seems to be growing strongly. Revenue from software sold as a service climbed 29 percent from this time last year, to $416 million, the company said. But that's a relatively small part of Oracle's business, and it wasn't enough to offset mediocre performance elsewhere.

Red Hat plans to have each of the different layers of Cloud Suite (OpenStack, OpenShift) service a different kind of application type, and to have a management layer (CloudForms) let each of them interoperate.

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